Digital business has evolved rapidly over the last decade. From the early days of companies establishing websites as their digital storefronts to entire departments focused on building and maintaining online communities, digital continues to change and evolve as a core business function. In particular, the new digital business landscape has forced sales teams to evolve to stay in tune with a rapidly changing sales environment.
Innovation Insights
The B2B Business Growth Blog
Innovation Insights explores the impact of new and emerging concepts in sales, marketing, strategy and leadership for CEOs of growth-driven business-to-business companies.
Tags: sales performance, social media, online marketing, Focus Area: Sales, business leadership, social selling
For many business-to-business (B2B) companies, social selling is a concept that is much discussed, largely misunderstood and rarely put into meaningful practice. Thanks to the proliferation of social media platforms and the confluence of radical changes in the sales and marketing environment today, many B2B sales teams are feeling genuinely overwhelmed when it comes to how they should approach the marketplace.
Tags: CRM, sales performance, sales training, Focus Area: Sales, marketing automation, social selling, revenue generation, linkedin, salesforce.com
Driving growth: It seems like the obvious priority for every business, but in reality it often becomes a vanishingly remote possibility in the midst of the daily demands of running a company. As long as the sky isn’t falling and most of your current customers remain for now, it may seem impossible to get around to making changes that could actually fuel significant new growth. Here are 4 strategies that you, as a CEO, can implement today to get over this hurdle and start growing again:
Tags: content marketing, CRM, Focus Area: Strategy, marketing automation, change management, business strategy, b2b business growth, selecting a business consultant, competitive differentiation, market positioning, social selling
As the CEO of a growth-stage or midmarket B2B enterprise, you are always looking for opportunities to improve the company and achieve better business results. But whether your business is a $5M specialized architectural firm or a $45M industrial products manufacturer, one thing seems for sure: There are some competitive advantages and strategies that Fortune 500 companies can use, which are probably not scalable or practical for smaller companies…or at least, that’s the common wisdom. As it turns out, there is more value you can gain from the strategies used by large companies than you may think.
Tags: brand strategy, CRM, Focus Area: Strategy, marketing automation, business strategy, b2b business growth, business execution, business consulting, social selling, market disruption, corporate university, innovation lab
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